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XDoC-WFMS: A Framework for Document Centric Workflow Management System

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Document Management is an important component of a workflow management system. XML has become a prominent language for document processing and management, and has an additional advantage of managing persistent documents using XML document management system. In this paper, we develop an XML Document Centric Workflow Management System (XDoC-WFMS) for specifying, executing and controlling workflows. A workflow consists of a set of interrelated activities. These activities involve accessing multiple documents, each of which is encapsulated within a micro-agent. A micro-agent is a system agent within an XDoC-WFMS that performs document management (i.e., retrieving, concurrent updating, and transferring documents). The XDoC-WFMS supports seamless integration of document processing within a workflow, flexible and dynamic management of XML documents, micro-agent based event and exception handling, and secure document access.

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  1. International Institute of Information Technology, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, 500019, India

    Rupa Krishnan, Lalitha Munaga & Kamalakar Karlapalem

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  1. Graduate school of environment and information sciences, Yokohama National University, 79-7, Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, yokohama, 240-8501, Japan

    Hiroshi Arisawa

  2. Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Yoshida, Sakyo, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan

    Yahiko Kambayashi

  3. SICE Computer Networking, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO, 64110, USA

    Vijay Kumar

  4. University of Klagenfurt, Universitätsstraße 65-67, 9020, Klagenfurt, Austria

    Heinrich C. Mayr

  5. VP Industry Services DAMA International, PO Box 5786, Bellevue, WA, 98006-5786, USA

    Ingrid Hunt

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Krishnan, R., Munaga, L., Karlapalem, K. (2002). XDoC-WFMS: A Framework for Document Centric Workflow Management System. In: Arisawa, H., Kambayashi, Y., Kumar, V., Mayr, H.C., Hunt, I. (eds) Conceptual Modeling for New Information Systems Technologies. ER 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2465. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46140-X_27

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